> The downloads on http://ioquake3.org/get-it/ are over two years old > now. There have been over 400 commits since then and some of those fix > real bugs[1]. Can we put out a new release? > > [1] And then again... http://svn.icculus.org/quake3?view=rev&revision=1895
It may be selfish of me, but it might be a good time to do a release after someone's really hammered out the remaining issues of: https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4790 https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4358 IQM ( http://lee.fov120.com/iqm/ ) was recently added and bugfixed a bit which is good news for anyone wanting MD5-level model/animation stuff as from what I understand it's trivial to go from MD5 to IQM, some command-line tool imports/converts it. That'll help attract content creators to any projects using ioq3 as a base. There's a longstanding sound looping bug that DevHC will hopefully get around to fixing and submitting a patch for; he doesn't use bugzilla so you don't see it listed, but I believe it to be related to this bug in Reaction: https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4079 There appears to be different behavior in OAL versus the normal Q3 sound system and DevHC was going to be "fixing" the Q3 sound system where the issue still seems to exist. >From what I know off the top of my head, Thilo is in the middle of trying to make QVMs safer and also wants to overhaul the networking a smidge (or already did?) to make it easier to fix VOIP issues that are currently in bugzilla. I think bugzilla has those issues listed. And the only other thing I see as affecting users would be maybe the MSVC project files needing to be updated. But I'm looking at this from a user wondering, "what's new since 1.36 that I would care about?" Right now I think IQM has been added and... lots of stuff under the hood but nothing quite as sexy as a new renderer. A new release is a good time to spam some news sites and get some publicity and if you want to attract fresh meat, make the release as enticing as possible. My opinion, at least. Monk. _______________________________________________ ioquake3 mailing list ioquake3@lists.ioquake.org http://lists.ioquake.org/listinfo.cgi/ioquake3-ioquake.org By sending this message I agree to love ioquake3 and libsdl.
